Very Short Films

Very Short Films

Very short film is a term that come about to account for short films less than half an hour. Very short films referees to commercials or music videos a piece of film that has a viewing time of less than thirty minutes.

Johnathan Glazer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Glazer

Johathan Glazer named Director of the Year at the MTV 1997 awards is signed to the London based production company Academy films.

He wrote and directed three short films ‘Mad’, ‘Pool’ and ‘Commission’ but is greatly recognised for the ‘Guiness Surfer’ advert that he directed in 2000. An intresting factor of his work is his will to create and develop ideas from the start instead of the commonly know way of getting a written concept that all thats needed is knowledge in direction.

Glazer has developed a certain syle that appears constantly in his work, the commercials and music videos that he has directed contains dramtic over prowering action that draws its audience in with his outstanding use of atmospheric ideal setting.

Rabbit in your hedlight by Unckle

Directed by Jonathan Glazer

Time: 5:02

Brody Barker

KnowMore Productions

http://www.knowmorecreates.com/

Brody Barker is a writer and director. Barker runs a production company alongside his wife called KnowMoreProductions this was the company responsible for the twelve short films “T Takes”. that premiered at Sundance film festival and have strong casting of recognized actors.

Episode 1 starring Josh Hartnett
Episode 2 starring Morena Baccarin
Episode 3 starring Andre Royo
Episode 4 starring Brady Corbet
Episode 5 starring Michael Stahl-David
Episode 6 starring Saffron Burrows
Episode 7 starring Lukas Hass
Episode 8 starring Mark Webber
Episode 9 starring Jason Ritter
Episode 10 starring Josh Lucas
Episode 11 starring Michael Pitt

Historical Very Short Films.

An iconic music video thats recognized on history for breaking boundaries and setting records is the music video by Michael Jackson, exceeding all budgets of any music video the video set a different tone to music video and showed that creativity and narrative can cohabitate well.

Michael Jackson : Thriller

A 14 minute music video

Director: John Landis

Written by: John Landis and Michael Jackson

Released: 1983

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